HOW FAR CAN WE PUSH OUR BODIES

What is the human body caple of? According to the Cleveland Clinic, only professional football is more physically demanding than ballet.

SUREN MANVELYAN

I think this photograph is beautiful. You are able to see more detail than you would be able to with the human eye.

AMERICAN VOGUE JUNE 2012

American Vogue 2012

LONDON OLYMPICS

After going to see the London Olympics I was inspired by the physical demands that athletes put on their bodies. I remembered an image I found in a previous project of a mans chest and was inspired to look further into contortions of the body and adaptions of humans.

UP CLOSE AND TWISTED

Inspired by contortion and the human body I took some photographs of a part of my body to see what shapes I was able to make. I think for inital research they could be useful and it could be interesting to see what shapes could be formed in a similar photoshoot but with more bodies.

ALEXANDER STRAULINO

Zoomed in, cut up, or heavily dripping in paint,a face turns into a bold, almost abstract statement.

HO - RYON LEE

Ho - Ryon Lee uses photography and overlaying to suggest something as simple as a skirt flirt to be highly erotic. Through seduction and voyeurism, revealing and hiding, the object of desire is shown.

Overlaying could be a very useful tool in my experimentation stage of this project because it is very suggestive but does not completely manipulate the image.